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It's taken me a few games and a few months, but I think I'm gonna go ahead and remove Hullbreaker Horror from the top end. Good golly Miss Molly. Should 7-drops just win the game? Yes, but not in so hideous a fashion. I'm left wondering if the tribal theme in Commander Legends: Baldur's Gate...

Iconic photo, but just for general info, it was totally staged. The camera angle very cunningly hides a completed floor just out of frame. (You can find photos of the same construction workers pretending to nap on the beam.) In a happy conclusion, this rather inane factoid helps me appreciate...

I'll sign on to your cause too. It's my sleeper card of the set. I think it's one of those cards that we'll need to see in action before we understand its effectiveness.

I may be in the minority on this, but I don't recall exalted being too unplayable in Alara limited. The black isolation mechanic from Avacyn Restored was pretty awful though. Since it's 50/50, I think it could be worth at least exploring potential contenders before writing it off. A deep dive on...

That's pretty funny because the No Mercy art depicts Queen Marchesa, who came from the dethrone set. Heck of a way to punish would-be monarchs.

White has traditionally been the prismatic color, able to focus/channel all five colors combined for its purposes. In visual terms:

If you think Yuriko's price is funny, the price of Retrofitter Foundry will make you lol. It's the same Legacy Ninja deck driving the price too. I liked the equinox arts, but Satoru might be the first time I splurge on a variant. Love me some Yoji Shinkawa. I also expect art from Yusuke Murata...

Thank you very much, Zoss. I went into this without much expectations and saw it mostly as a journal exercise, but I think it's also unusual to have someone go through a cube's construction brick by brick. I still have this idea that a cube kind of springs fully-formed from the skull of a...

To be honest, even at higher resolution on Arena I struggle to grok what's actually happening with the art on Thirst for Knowledge. If I read the flavor text for context, it looks like we have an underwater perspective looking up at somebody standing above the surface, maybe on a dock or...

Let's go through the creatures by casting cost. One-Drops White one drops on Innistrad are pretty interesting. There's no traditional 2 power for one mana, which is a big obstacle to building strong WX aggro decks. Instead, the one drops seem to fall into two distinct categories: Creatures...

Graveyard Matters in White As a preamble to figuring out the creature section, I think it would help to have an overview of how white interacts with the graveyard. Typically, white is the worst graveyard color in any Innistrad set. Its resurrection effects are overcosted with very little...

The Build Arounds Chronic Flooding Drowned Secrets Ominous Seas Scuttletide Fleeting Memories Ominous Roost Secrets of the Dead Trail of Evidence Chronic Flooding – maybe a little too good at self-mill for a card that's not from Innistrad. It's a free Dream Twist every turn after the first cast...

Bounce Spells and Counterspells Fading Hope Silent Departure Just the Wind Unexplained Disappearance Unsubstantiate Drag Under I don't think we need six different bounce spells. Of these, I like Unexplained Disappearance and Unsubstantiate the least. Though Unexplained Disappearance helps with...

You Drowned - Blue Zombies and Self-Mill Armored Skaab Laboratory Brute Organ Hoarder Shadow Kin Geralf's Mindcrusher Organ Hoarder was the best blue common from Midnight Hunt. I expect it to do great things here. Skaab and Brute are kind of the bread and butter of a self-mill deck. I think...

From the CubeCobra list, I think the cuts in blue could come from among: Skaab Wrangler - I don't see a strong token presence anywhere except red, which will limit Wrangler a lot. Sky Theater Strix - unlike something like Aven Wind Mage, this doesn't feel like a great rate to me even when going...

Thanks. I shouldn't have mentioned Tireless Tracker at all, it's more of a generic goodstuff card than any other payoff. It's not a retail cube, it's more of a prized amalgam of all three Innistrad blocks, with some thematic bits and bobs thrown in from other places. We're shooting for a power...

Blue Humans Covetous Castaway Malevolent Hermit Overwhelmed Archivist Not much to say about these, as they were already featured in the Spirits section. I will say that Malevolent Hermit skews slightly more aggressive than the other two, as an acceptable Piker with disruption up front and a...

Just putting out some tentacly feelers for the Innistrad cube I'm building. Lantern Bearer Lanterns' Lift Wingcrafter Spore Crawler Byway Courier Undecided on how much Human synergy to include. Clue payoffs are currently Briarbridge Patrol, Briarbridge Tracker/Tireless Tracker, Confront the...

Starting with Spirits so I can gush about Disturb. Covetous Castaway Malevolent Hermit Benevolent Geist Overwhelmed Archivist With the amount of cuts I need to make, it's really nice to have cards that can multitask and be a little bit of everything to everyone. These three from MID in...

I haven't quite decided how to organize the blue section for analysis in these posts. For creatures, I initially wanted to divide it by casting cost, then thought it might be too narrow and considered discussing the cards by tribe, then realized some of the non-tribal critters would fall through...